Los Graduates Elementary School!!

I cant believe how time is flying. Just a few years ago I was taking my boy to his first day of Kindergarten and now here he is graduating elementary school. I've seen my little guy go from little boy to young man. Christian, Christina and I were joined by my brother and his fiancee to see our little guy receive his diploma. I could not be prouder of my son :)

My little guy walking with his class to his seat.

After the ceremony we all took pics with the graduate

We also cant forget pictures of Carlos's best friend and teacher!

You make me proud every single day little guy! congrats to my boy! Class of 2009

Family Fun Night 09

Today we attended little C's last Family Fun Night at his school. It was a little sad for him since it was his last as a fifth grader. We all had a blast having dinner, and playing games all evening long.

The kids started off by getting their "crazy hair" done:

Los then went off to play with his classmates and C and I were left to play games with Christina. First we stopped by the face painting station where I thought my daughter would choose a cute design to put on her face. I was expecting a butterfly, a ladybug, or maybe even a rainbow. To my surprise my daughter shouts out..." I WANT A SPIDER...A SPIDERWEB!" so a spider it was.

Have I mentioned how much I HATE spiders...Yes its official my daughter wants to torture me!


Whe played tons of games:

Christina and daddy tried the cake walk and won!!!

Then she saw Gigante and got scared:

because he tried to steal her cupcakes

He gave them back though... :P

We eventually found los who was having fun with his buddies and we went home. It was an awesome time!

Sunset Beach Trip

C surprised me today by picking me up from work and bringing me a change of clothes. He would not tell me what we were doing or where we were going. We got on the 280 and I realized we were heading to San Francisco. We headed over to ocean beach to watch the sunset...The only problem? Um there was no sun out and it was FREEZING COLD! We made the best of it and walked around the beach. The kids loooooved it ran around the beach picking up sand dollars. It was awesome :)

The kids and I and our "Ram Fam" sign :D

Let The Egg Hunting Begin.....

Our Saturday morning before Easter began with taking a trip to little C's school for an Easter egg hunt for the community. We walked all the way to his school and back. A total of 3 miles! It was definitely good exercise :D When we got there we found many kids just as ready as my kids to find eggs and have a great time. They had an awesome set up. Kids ages 0-2 in one, kids 3-5 in another, and Elementary school kids were 30 min after the little kids. I was a little worried because this was Chris's first time egg hunting and unfortunately the group she was in (ages 3-5) had to look for eggs without the company of their parent. She had just seen Dora the explorer on TV the day before so I reminded her to just look for the eggs just like Dora did. She just answered with "OK mommy" and eagerly awaited everyone to do the countdown to begin

As the countdown began....my worries quickly went away because it turns out my child is a pro at egg hunting and as soon as the countdown hit 1 off she went to find her some eggs!

She ran around the whole park and came back with a basket full of eggs! She made her mama proud. Inside the eggs were coupons that could be redeemed for prizes and both her and her brother came back with lots of coupons that were found inside their eggs.

Next it was her brothers turn. He was in the elementary group and when the countdown came for them. They all took off and it was really funny because unlike the younger kids, the older kids cleaned up within minutes! It was really funny to watch, its like they would migrate from spot to spot all at the same time. He did really good as well and came back with a bag full of eggs.

The kids then went and redeemed their coupons and got some awesome prizes. They had tons of fun and were very excited. It was awesome to see the community come together and put something like this together. We will definitely doing this again next year :D

A day in the life of my little girl.....

I love days when I just hang out with the kids at home. Today was one of those days. I had the day off work as it is Good Friday and I had a great day with the kids. Today Christina had a really good day. She is becoming very independent. Wanting to dress herself, choosing her clothes, changing her outfits and so on and so one. Todays ensemble made me smile..I walked into her room and found that she had found her outfit for the day and it was as so:

upon further inspection I noticed that her pants were on inside out with the tag sticking way out.

I let her be and her day went on with her chosen outfit. In that entire day Christina became a ballerina......

a cowgirl of some sort.....

and played in her room making some great food in her play kitchen

I love seeing her play and use her imagination. She had a great day :D

Saying Good Bye For a Week ......

...to my son was by far the hardest thing I had to do so far this year. He left on my birthday to science camp and came back today. Even though I was sad to be apart from him I was really excited that he was having this awesome experience.

I was so excited to go get him today though. His sister and I got to his school really early and waited patiently for those darned buses to arrive.

along with all the other parents we waited and waited and waited and when a bus would come around the corner my heart would start beating faster...only to be let down because those buses were empty.....but all of a sudden....

one by one.....

The buses all arrived!!! Christina and I waited patiently as the kids made their way out of the busses. C was in the third bus and as he made his way toward us I tried hard to hold the tears back. I was so happy to finally see this face after a very long week:

He had a blast and came home telling us all sorts of science camp stories. Just seeing him and hearing how much fun he had all week made everything worthwhile :)